The play Is-Sur Ibrahim u l-Fjuri fil-Koranis set in a working-class, Parisian neighborhood in the mid-20th century. A young Jewish boy who is growing up without a mother and with a depressed father, meets an elderly, Turkish, grocery store owner whom he regularly robs. The pair, however, develop an unusual relationship. The elderly Turk adopts the young boy when the latter's father commits suicide . . . The play has also been adapted into a French movie starring Omar Sharif and directed by Francois Dupeyron.